Turnbull: Babysitting Frontier Models All Day While X Says They're Superhuman
tszzl · x · 2026-09-13
Late Interaction's Doug Turnbull quips about his daily routine: N hours working with frontier models, babysitting them in frustration at frequent errors and slop, interrupted by M-minute breaks browsing X takes claiming the same models (and especially the next gen) are superhuman at everything. Burkov replies in agreement.
The post captures the gap between practitioners' hands-on experience — models still make frequent errors — and the superhuman-AGI narratives dominating social media.
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